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Joined: Feb '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35 (M)
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Depends if your a very skill full player and win 8 out of ten sngs or if you usually finish third or fourth. Depends on your style of play also I suppose. People who play aggressively from the off are likely to boom or bust, come first often but risk finishing last. People who can play tight short stack strategy may make it to third but will find it difficult to beat a massive chip leader when it comes down to the last three.
Joined: Feb '08
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Posted by MrMan: I you see only mathamaticly on it
A 6 seater you are in the money 33,3% A 10 seater you are in the money 30,0%
So if it is evenly distributed I would say the 6 seater SNG.
What you fail to consider here though is that the ten seater pot is bigger in proportion to the buy in. a third of six dollars is two dollars and 30% of 10 dollars is three so assuming you win the same percentage of times both types you get more for your money with the 10sng.
course it's not that simple. You may be more suited to six seated and if you come first more often than not in any SNG, then six seated pays out more.
------------ I don't think I explained that clearly enough.
If you win both types of SNG the same percentage of times ie top ten percent finish 1 in ten times, top twenty percent finish 3 in ten times etc, then 10 sng will always give you better money for the buy in but in reality you should have to do more work to beat more people. This isn't true though either as six seater requires better style imo.
Personally I find 6 seater SNGs are more profitable.
You only need on double up early on and you have the table at your mercy. You can put pressure on the blinds and because the blinds come around alot quicker you find that players are more prone to mistakes.
The effect of having a bigger stack is much less in a 10 man SNG aand its not uncommon for 2-3 players to have larger stacks and thus making it more difficult to put pressure on them.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 469
I think that 6-table sit&go are better. This kind of sit&gos are easier to play, because it is easier to read the other players. If you win a big pot youre almost ITM you just have to control the pots and wait for good hands. Sit&go is good too, it depends of the room you are.
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 54 (M)
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Everyone seems to be missing something here.
For the game to be most profitable you're gonna need to multi table. Multi tabling 10 man SnGs is gonna be much easier that 6 man SnGs.
You're gonna need to play poker and make good reads at a 6 man table and you're gonna want to nit it up at a 10 man. As such the players are probably better at a 6 man too.
If I was playing purely for money I'd definitely play 10 man If I was playing for enjoyment or to improve my poker skills then I'd play 6 man
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Canada
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 2698
At first I thought 6 seaters because you have to play more hands but there is a higher chance for bad players in the 10 man sng so I don't know. Personally, I like the 9/10 man sngs a lot better.
Posted by MrMan: I you see only mathamaticly on it
A 6 seater you are in the money 33,3% A 10 seater you are in the money 30,0%
So if it is evenly distributed I would say the 6 seater SNG.
This is of-course to simple. It would meen you should only play dobbel og nothing since they give you 50% chance to get in the money.
If we say the buy-in is 10$ the return would be: 33,3 * 60 = 20$ 30 * 100 = 30$
But this would only mean you should play large MTT 1000 players and 10% in the money gives you 100$ in return.
So we have to take in account also the time factor. A 1000 player MTT takes maybe 4 hours, but a 10 players SNG takes 1 hour? So the return pr. hour is 25$ for the MTT.
But the time estimate is hard to predict, so now I give up to do this mathamaticly.
It all depends on what you are good at and the type of game that is best for you.
Joined: Nov '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 47 (M)
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yeah i like top play 6 seater sit n go's as i belive it suites my style a little better. i like to play so i can play more hands more often but i still play 10 seater sit n go's as i like to challenge my abilitys
Joined: May '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 53 (M)
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I think its for every player different, for example me, i make profit on 6seater and on 10seater but more profit on 10seater cos its suits me better. Also 10seaters are easier to multi-tabling then 6 seaters, 6seaters needs more attention, but 10seaters takes longer time to finish. So many factors for wots more profitable in the long run, 6seaters or 10seaters.
Tough question, I've never really questioned myself... and it's probably because I hate short handed poker. But voted 10 seater because remember the Boku's challenge on PS of making $100 to $10000 in 15 days... I think he only played 10 seater, right?
